Get the Growth Off Your Back

I wake up at 4:50 am, and after I get dressed, and get my coffee started, I wake up my son. He has off-season conditioning (weightlifting, agility) 4 days a week. On Fridays, he has to be dressed and ready to start at 5:30 am. We can’t leave too soon for him on these days. It works out for me, because I can swim laps at his high school.
I took swim lessons for a few years as a kid, but I don’t remember them actually telling me the mechanics of a particular stroke, just the basics of freestyle and backstroke.
In my adult years, I would always get in the water at resorts, and pools at hotels where I travelled, but I would only swim a few laps, and then just paddle around. When the kids were growing up, it would always be me playing in the pool with them, splashing, diving under, throwing them around, and their Mom would relax on the deck, sunning or reading. If she came in the pool, it was to swim laps, not so much to play. I don’t regret that, we played games like “Washing Machine”, where I held them, and bounced up and down, turning in a circle. Or when my son would climb on my back, I made it a game “Get the Growth Off Your Back”. We also played a game (“Shark”) where they had to cross the pool in one direction, and I would swim underwater in the other, straight across, and if I could touch them, the “Shark” got them!
So, I may not be a very strong, efficient swimmer, but if they ever create a triathlon with a “Get the Growth Off Your Back” swim portion, I have a good shot at winning my age group.